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To pursue union at the expense of truth is treason to the Lord Jesus.
Truth0No man preaches a sermon well to others who does not first preach it to his own heart.
Preaching0Do you mortify; do you make it your daily work; be always at it whilst you live; cease not a day from this work; be killing sin or it will be killing you.
Of the Mortification of Sin in Believers Chapter 2Sin0Of the Mortification of Sin in Believers Chapter 2
Ironically, the insistence that doctrines do not matter is really a doctrine itself.
The Reason for God (8)Truth0The Reason for God (8)
The question to be asked of all teaching is not, 'Is it new?' but 'Is it true?
Truth0we live in what may be the most anti-intellectual period in the history of Western civilization.
"Burning Hearts Are Not Nourished by Empty Heads", Christianity Today (Sep 3 1982)Truth0"Burning Hearts Are Not Nourished by Empty Heads", Christianity Today (Sep 3 1982)
Bad theology kills. So get rid of the adjective, not the noun. Ditch the bad. Keep the theology.
Proclaiming A Cross-Centered Theology (26)Truth0Proclaiming A Cross-Centered Theology (26)
Holiness is nothing but the implanting, writing and living out the gospel in our souls
Holiness0The gospel is most wickedly eclipsed while multitudes of petty "scholars" fret themselves how they might best teach the faith within a rigidly structured, accurate, methodical-philosophical form! A great multitude of errors have swarmed into the church through the reception of philosophy, like Greeks out of the belly of the Trojan horse...The clear fact is that the common, Aristotelian philosophy supplied sufficient materials for an infinity of quarrels and useless disputes. The facts shout out to heaven that our little, witty, chattering sophists, in their endless wrangling over the "articles of faith," are simply raking over the embers of Aristotle's philosophy, and in so doing they irritate the throne of Almighty God with legal quarrels and cheap tricks...It is a result of this that our theological libraries are packed full of weighty tomes, and our disputes are without end, and the most about matters, assertions and terms the Christian world would have done far better never to have heard of -and would not have heard of if they had not happened to enter the fertile brain of Aristotle so long ago! But the full catalog, the great Iliad of evils so produced, this is not the place to try to expound in detail.
Biblical Theology: The History of Theology from Adam to ChristPhilosophy, Greeks, Theology0Biblical Theology: The History of Theology from Adam to Christ
Truth must be spoken, though the greatest on earth be offended.
Drink Deeply: Meditations from the Fountain of LifeTruth0Drink Deeply: Meditations from the Fountain of Life
It is better that our affections exceed our light from the defect of our understandings, than that our light exceed our affections from the corruption of our wills.
Works, Vol 1. 401Contemplation0Works, Vol 1. 401
It is not the distance of the earth from the sun, nor the sun's withdrawing itself, that makes a dark and gloomy day; but the interposition of clouds and vaporous exhalations. Neither is thy soul beyond the reach of the promise, nor does God withdraw Himself; but the vapours of thy carnal, unbelieving heart do cloud thee.
Unbelief0Brothers, for the sake of the truth, and for the good of your people, and for the glory of God in the world, don't confuse timid uncertainty with truthful humility.
Brothers, We are Not Professionals (166)Truth0Brothers, We are Not Professionals (166)
We cannot know like God knows (archetypal), but we can know as God wants and allows and helps us to know (ectypal).
Proclaiming A Cross-Centered Theology (32)Truth0Proclaiming A Cross-Centered Theology (32)
We do not owe the truth to those who want to use it for evil.
Truth0A minister may fill his pews, his communion roll, the mouths of the public, but what that minister is on his knees in secret before God Almighty, that he is and no more.
Prayer0There is nothing more unloving than to be silent in the face of lies that will ruin another person.
Dug Down Deep (221)Truth0Dug Down Deep (221)
We cannot help it if the truth offends people, but we must always make sure that it is the truth that is offending them and not us.
Truth0Lusts that pretend to be useful to the state and condition of men, that are pleasant and satisfactory to the flesh, will not be mortified without such a violence as the whole soul shall be deeply sensible of.
https://ccel.org/ccel/owen/pneum/pneum.i.viii.viii.htmlSin, Lust0he that would be little in temptation, let him be much in prayer
https://ccel.org/ccel/owen/temptation/temptation.i.viii.htmlTemptation, Prayer0No repentance is acceptable with God but what is built on the faith of forgiveness
Faith, Repentance, Forgiveness0[Sin] cannot be killed without a sense of pain and trouble. Hence it is compared to the cutting off of right hands, and the plucking out of right eyes.
https://ccel.org/ccel/owen/pneum/pneum.i.viii.viii.htmlSin0Temptations and occasions put nothing into man, but only draw out what was in him before.
Temptation0We do not have the ability in ourselves to accomplish the least of God's tasks. This is the law of grace.
Grace, Work0We are all in such a hurry, we want everything at once. We believe that all truth can be stated in a few minutes. The answer to that is that it cannot.
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